Klimovo (Bryansk)
Urban-type settlement
Klimowo
Климово
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List of large settlements in Russia |
Klimowo ( Russian Кли́мово ) is an urban-type settlement in the Bryansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,892 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located about 175 km as the crow flies southwest of the Bryansk Oblast Administrative Center on the Irpa, a small right tributary of the Snow , a good 10 km from the border with Ukraine .
Klimowo is the administrative center of the Klimovsky Rajon . The settlement is the only locality in the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije).
To the northwest of Klimovo lies Novosybkow .
history
The place was founded in 1708 by the old Orthodox Klim Yermolajewitsch and was consequently the center of an area with a predominantly old Orthodox population.
In 1923 Klimowo became the administrative seat of a Volost , in 1929 of a newly created Rajons. Since 1938 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement .
During the Second World War , the settlement was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in August 1941 and recaptured by the Red Army on September 24, 1943 .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 5,678 |
1959 | 7,024 |
1970 | 9,708 |
1979 | 11,492 |
1989 | 14,637 |
2002 | 14,776 |
2010 | 13,892 |
Note: census data
Attractions
In Klimowo there is the old Orthodox Demetrios Church ( церковь Димитрия Солунского , zerkow Dmitrija Solunskowo ) from the 19th century. In the village there is the Rajonheimatmuseum, which is called the Museum of Friendship of Peoples (Musei Druschby Narodow) because of its proximity to Ukraine and Belarus .
In the district of Pokrovskoje about 5 km northwest of the center is the complex of the Klimowoer Maria-Schutz-und- Interbitte- Kloster (Klimowski Pokrowski monastyr) founded in 1765, initially old Orthodox, which has been believing since 1847 , which has been rebuilt since the late 1980s.
Economy and Infrastructure
There are food and light industries in the settlement.
Klimowo is the end point of a railway line from Novosybkow (station name Klimow ; route km 25). The line, opened in 1902, originally continued to Nowhorod-Siverskyj , now Ukraine, but was shut down from Klimowo in the 1990s. From Klimowo there is a daily continuous train connection via Bryansk to Moscow (as of 2012). The most important road connection runs along the railway line also in the direction of Novosybkow, where there is a connection to the M13 trunk road , which leads from Brjansk to the Belarusian border (there continues as M10 via Homel through the southern part of the country to Brest ). The road from Novosybkow via Klimov is part of an alternative route between Brjansk and the Ukrainian capital Kiev (via Chernihiv ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
- ↑ Demetrios Church Klimowo at sobory.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Klimowoer Mariä-Schutz-und-intercessor-monastery at sobory.ru (Russian)